Uhhhh, no. Liberals are the right wing of this party (well, the
occasional ex-Libertarian), socialists in the middle, communists and
anarchists competing for the left. The only thing that keeps the
communists from their rightful place dominating the left wing is the
anarchists giving democratic politics one more try. Plenty of room on the
right for conservationist hunters.
That aside, it's a fairly large office with spillover space if we
need it, and a fairly convenient location.
The Greens' hardware is lower middle of the Linux spectrum (486,
Pentium I, if we're lucky). Plenty of chance your obsolete equipment will
be an upgrade.
This clinic should be pretty much a matter of evaluating their
boxes for Linux, and the space itself for future clinics, and maybe a
Linux installation or two (or more, no reason we can't continue with the
usual program of getting random users up and running).
It could be that we'd find Debian the most acceptable distro for
purely ideological reasons, but that's not yet a worry, most of these
people are blissfully unaware that there might be more than one flavor of
Linux, nor that RedHat, Mandrake or Corel might not be politically
correct. Like the Country Fair, the first hurdle was convincing them that
there is no Linux, Inc. in charge.
Anyway, we have a free meeting space in exchange for volunteer
computer support for the Greens.
On 8 Dec 2001, Jim Darrough wrote:
> Hah hah. An opportunity for Jim the Republican to STRIKE OUT AGAINST
> BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS!
>
> Hah hah hah!!!
>
> Anyway, let me know if you need some hardware. As long as you let me
> delete any of Nader's references to Yucca Mountain (grin).
>
> Regards, Jim
>
> On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 18:01, Edward Craig wrote:
> > Jamie,
> > Good point.
> > To all;
> > On Thursday 13 December, members of the Eugene (mumble mumble)
> > Linux User Group are invited to the Lane Pacific Green Party office in
> > room 206 of the Growers Market at 456 Willamette to evaluate the contents
> > of two computer cases; one white box mini tower, 1 Dell horizontal desktop
> > case, each with visible floppy and CD ROM drive, at least 1 ethernet
> > card, and DSL connection hardware for conversion to Linux. The Dell has
> > successfully booted Windows 95, the tower looks to be a 486 (guess based
> > on the turbo button).
> > This time I have the keys.
> > Known desires of the Green Office:
> > 1) Get DSL working.
> > 2) Use the Excel database from the Nader 2000 campaign.
> > 3) Get "word proccessing" working.
> > 4) Learn Linux.
> > Metered parking is free after six, and fairly available within a
> > block or two.
> > I'm going to poll [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information on the
> > Greens desires. I am hereby asking eug-lug for more considerations and
> > ideas.
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
> >
> > > Ed,
> > > Gee... If we are going to have a meeting/clinic, maybe you
> > > should post a message to the list, so the rest of us know about it
> > > too.
> > >
> > > Jamie
> > >
> > > On Friday 07 December 2001 11:23, Edward Craig wrote:
> > > > The clinic is on hiatus while we find a more accessable space.
> > > > Mr.O had to back off because somebody complained that the clinic used up
> > > > too much parking.
> > > > We tried the Growers Market last night, but that failed because we
> > > > couldn't get a key to the Greens office, we'll try again next week, by
> > > > which time I hope to get the key situation straight.
> > > > Others are checking on other possible venues.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Seth Cohn wrote:
> > > > > Someone contact him please and offer help?
> > > > >
> > > > > --- Dan Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > Subject: Linux clinic
> > > > > > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:52:46 -0800
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi, I think we've met at a Linux clinic in the
> > > > > > past. I was on the
> > > > > > mailing list, but it got too busy. I now have a
> > > > > > second-hand TI laptop
> > > > > > that works and I'd like to get some (a lot of)
> > > > > > help installing
> > > > > > Debian. Last I heard, the clinic was at Mr. O's
> > > > > > place. If that's
> > > > > > still so, I need the address, or since I don't
> > > > > > have a car, a ride
> > > > > > from downtown Eugene, or a bus stop somewhere
> > > > > > else, would be really
> > > > > > welcome. Actually I need one or the other
> > > > > > wherever it is. :) Thanks
> > > > > > much.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Dan Robinson 541-465-4790
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://www.efn.org/~danrob/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Nobody's perfect; everybody's approaching
> > > > > > optimum.
> > > > >
> > > > > __________________________________________________
> > > > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > > > Send your FREE holiday greetings online!
> > > > > http://greetings.yahoo.com
> > >
> >
>
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Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taxi (I need an income) GNU/Linux (I can afford a Free OS)
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